Ah. Yep. This one comes through our store via reselling - asked one of the other cashiers if she'd let her daughter wear -that-, and her answer was a very firm no. Haven't sold one yet that I know of, thankfully.
Unbelievable. I was just having a conversation with coworkers this morning over the sighting of a kid - a young kid - wearing a tshirt that said "P*rn Star" on it. Yeah. Funny. Ha ha. None of my coworkers believed it; I guess they haven't been to the preteen clothing section lately.
That costume is gross. For the record, I despise Bratz and My Scene dolls too. They just reek of marketing manipulation, and the kids are sucked right in. Good on you for being stalwart about it. Anything we can do to protect the innocence of childhood is worth it, even if there are continual ulcers involved.
Yikes! Only baby dolls (not the American Girl version either) in my house!
I believe the P*rn St*r t-shirt, because my sister's niece (early college) walked into my 2 year-old niece's birthday party wearing a shirt with Future MILF on it. I asked her if she was pregnant, which wasn't received too well 
.
Daisy
I really hate Bratz and My Scene dolls too... My daughter will NEVER have a Bratz or My Scene doll if I can help it. Not only are they all about partying, (what kind of 5 - 8 year old is out partying anyway?) they just liberally promote consumerism, in today out tommorrow, buy, buy buy,....
ACKKKKKKK!!! Thank goodness my daughter prefers fairies and princesses.
Yeeeeeeeeeuuw. Gross!
I believe the p*rn star thing too, because just the other day I saw a little girl (about 10yo) wearing a pink t-shirt with a Playboy bunny on it.
What the?
People who let their kids wear such things are just dumb.
We have two boys, ages 6 and 4. Last year, the older boy had a history fair and did the Middle Ages. We made a crusader costume for him as part of his report.
Two years ago, he went out as a dinosaur.
This year, we're getting to skip making the costumes, as the oldest will put on his armor again. "You are St. George."
The little guy gets the dinosaur costume, "You are the dragon."
I know, the dragon was supposed to be a great challenge for St. George. On the other hand, the four year old can send the six year old screaming from the room. I guess it works.
Hear hear.
I once saw a ten-yr-old wearing a t-shirt that said "Your Boyfriend Wants Me." ?!@#$. Why should we wonder why five-yr-olds are being kidnapped and raped?
The tightwad in me only allowed one costume per child last year (they had All Saints as well as Halloween to dress up for), so they were all saints of one sort or another. This year the oldest four want to be Ninjas, the second youngest will be Tigger and the baby receives the honor of being the pumpkin.
Dale, I think you must've stolen my post on the skankifying of our young girls! Seriously, I went on a rant about Bratz, Nickelodeon advertising, skanky fashions in all the affordable chain stores, and the nasty costumes I saw in the costume shop's circular all aimed at *little* girls. Heck, even when it's aimed at teens and young women, it's still morally repugnant!
Anyway, Blogger chomped on my post so I had to create a new one with a slight rant on what American Girl has done recently. ::sigh::
And while I'm not a huge fan of the older Barbie, at least she *seemed* "grown up" (teacher, doctor, mom) and not stuck in perpetual adolescence like Bratz. My daughter received a Bratz doll for her birthday last year, and the doll has mysteriously disappeared.
I always knew abstractly that some of my fellow parents at our elementary school were The Enemy.
When I saw the gentleman in the Trojan Condoms Spring Break t-shirt at the 5th grade assembly, I had a concrete example.
Home schooling, all the way.
Not sure what my little one (aged 2) is going as this year. His favorite tv characters right now are Bob from The Incredibles and Hercule Poirot.
Glad I don't have any girls, yet.
Although, FWIW, my inclination is to blame the parents, rather than the marketing folks. Marketers aren't pioneers of any kind. They need to identify a demand for stuff before they fill it, generally speaking. As such, most t-shirts and costumes receive favorable pre-market testing and potential consumer feedback from parents BEFORE they get released.
Glenn Beck refers to them as "Pros-Ti-Tots"
...sister's niece (early college) walked into my 2 year-old niece's birthday party wearing a shirt with Future MILF on it...
What's Future MILF?
Jeanne:
Good quip--sad that there has to be one, but good quip.
MILF is an abbreviation for "Mom I'd Like to..."
Yeah. Seriously.
And a slight dissent--though not enough to want to buy the product for my girls--on the "My Scene" stuff: it doesn't seem nearly so "skankified." Then again, that could just be the lack of exposure on my part.
Sigh.....
Tomorrow I start a defamation jury trial which is right out of Mean Girls. The case grows out of a group of 15 to 16 year old girls at a Catholic High School engaged in serial and institionalized calumny on the internet about who was the biggest "biyatch", "hoe" and "slut", and I'm providing the reprintable adjectives. I've got IM transcripts where a bunch of upper middle class teenage girls talk like they just walked out of the ghetto. It is absolutely depressing and ugly, and it is the kind of mentality that starts with Bratz.
As a culture we've lost any understanding of the meaning of "modesty", "calumny" and "detraction." Once again, everything old is new again.
plus ca change
Alright! The Annual "The World is Going to Hell in a Handbasket Because of a Halloween Costume Rant"..
Must be time to carve the pumpkins and ask the folks what they're doing for Thanksgiving.
Bryan,
And don't forget that there are only 63 shopping days left 'til Christmas!
Bryan:
Just think of it as another sign of the change of the season.
What can I say? The bar gets lowered a little more every year. At least the pimp gear was full length. By 2008, I'm willing to lay even money we'll be able to celebrate the 15th Anniversary of Pulp Fiction with a Gimp outfit for toddlers.
Dale,
They already exist. They're just not "mainstream". Very big in the BDSM community.
Your use of the word retard is extremely offensive. I have a son with Down Syndrome.
Beth:
It was not the intent to offend. I have never--as in never--used the term to describe people who are disabled. My oldest nephew is profoundly brain damaged (institutionalized) as a result of grand mal epilepsy, and I was hardly thinking of him in using the term.
Nevertheless, I can see how it is offensive, and I will change it.
Thank you. I deeply appreciate it. Lots of people who would never use it to describe a person with a disability use it to mean stupid or idiotic.
I have heard children at my son's school who are WONDERFUL to my son say it to one another. (They would probably beat up anyone who was mean to my son!) Unfortunately it still is used in a derogatory way towards disabled people. I wish you and your nephew well.
Now as for the people who make, buy or even tolerate Bratz dolls...rave on, my friend, rave on!!
Beth
They could just simplify the whole process by selling "molested kiddie" and "pregnant adolescent" costumes. At least it would be more honest than pretending skanky is just adorable.
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